Sat 6th December 2014
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How Will new gTLD’s Rank? Coffee.Club is on 1st Page of Google 1 A Week After Launch -   Ever since the roll out of the new gTLD program was announced one of the big questions everyone asked is how domain names using new gTLD’s would rank in the search engines against more established extensions like .com, .net and .org? Coffee.club, which just launched a week ago has landed on the 1st page of  Google organically. Yes they are also advertising under the key term, but they also are ranking on the 1st page of Google organically beating out domain names like coffeeclub.com and thecoffeeclub.com ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wins gTLD .Cars Beating Donuts, DERcars - Uniregistry which has lost a bunch of recent new gTLD auctions, won a private auction for .Cars beating Donuts and DERcars which is Dominion Enterprises which applied for several new gTLD’s. If your wondering why .car and .cars is in the contention set, well its a long and in typical ICANN fashion pretty confusing. The short story  is that Google had filed a string confusion objection with ICANN against the three applicants for .Cars losing two and winning one and then there was an reconsideration ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wins gTLD .Cars Beating Donuts, DERcars - Uniregistry which has lost a bunch of recent new gTLD auctions, won a private auction for .Cars beating Donuts and DERcars which is Dominion Enterprises which applied for several new gTLD’s. If your wondering why .car and .cars is in the contention set, well its a long and in typical ICANN fashion pretty confusing. The short story  is that Google had filed a string confusion objection with ICANN against the three applicants for .Cars losing two and winning one and then there was an reconsideration ... read more ...
 
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Seven key takeaways from ICANN 51 in Los Angeles - The 51st international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally concluded on Thursday, October 16, 2014, in Los Angeles. As always, the ICANN community discussed several high-profile topics during the meeting, all of which are relevant to registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike, including: two-character names and geographic names; string confusion objection review, indirect contention, and ... read more ...
 
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.DE sowie .EU- 2 altbekannte sowie gute TLDs - ImpressumKontaktAGBDatenschutzKostenlose Ticker für Ihre Webseite Hier einige unserer für unsere Leser ausgesuchten Top Nachrichten Quellen www.pressebox.de  www.eurogamer.de www.br.de www.sueddeutsche.de  www.handelsblatt.com www.n24.de www.stern.de www.motorsport-magazin.com www.1asport.de www.tagesspiegel.de www.derstandard.at  ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Hosting Piece of Digital Multimedia Art Sold For $5K At Art Basel in Miami - According to Fastcompany.com, a piece of art work hosted on a domain name has been sold for $5,000 at the Art Basel show in Miami. The digital piece of multimedia is hosted on a URL, smokeinmirrors.net and was create by an artist named Alexandra Gorczynski According to Fast Company the sale of a piece of art hosted on a domain name is purportedly the first of its kind at a major international art festival. Of course a domain to sell for $5,000 in a common occurrence, but this is really a piece of ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Returns To Buenos Aires For Jun 2015 Meeting - ICANN has just announced they have selected Buenos Aires, Argentina for ICANN 53 which will be held in June 2015. ICANN 53 will be the  second Public Meeting ICANN meeting of 2015 and is to be held in Latin America/Caribbean region. Whereas, staff has completed a thorough review of all proposed and available venues in Latin America/Caribbean and finds the one in Buenos Aires, Argentina to be the most suitable. Resolved (2014.12.03.02), the Board authorizes the President and CEO, or his designee(s), ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2014
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Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu talks to TheStreet.com -

Taryn Naidu sat down with TheStreet.com and discussed what was going on with Rightside and a new gtlds. One of a initial things a interviewer asks if there is any status around .com ? Naidu replies that .com has no definition and it takes 6 to 8 searches to find an accessible .com right now.

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NameJet.com Updates Its Term Of Use - Namejet.com updated its Terms of Use today. If you haven’t seen it already you will be required to accept the terms of use before you will be allowed to access your NameJet.com account. We have highlighted some language which you should particular note “Before you may become a user of any NameJet service, you must read, agree with, and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in these Terms of Use, the NameJet Privacy Policy [located at http://www.namejet.com/Pages/Privacy.aspx], and ... read more ...
 
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QNB.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars To Qatar National Bank - Another $1 million domain name transaction discovered by George Kirikos http://t.co/yoRgLR9Qnj domain name sold for $1 million by QNB Corp $QNB to Qatar National Bank http://t.co/hgrJ70T79W — George Kirikos (@GeorgeKirikos) December 5, 2014   QNB Corp., parent company of QNB Bank, filed a Current Report on Form 8-K regarding a change to its website domain to qnbbank.com and the planned sale of its prior domain name to a third party for a purchase price of $1,000,000. The transfer of the prior ... read more ...
 
 
 
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Second Auction Of Bitcoins Seized from Silk Road Completed - John Biggs just posted on Tech Crunch that the second auciton of Silk Road Bitcoins. There were 50,000 BTC in this auction. Current Bitcoin pricing courtesy of CoinDesk.com From Tech Crunch: The US Marshals Service has completed the second auction of Bitcoin seized from the original Silk Road. The auction, consisting of 50,000 BTC, is the latest in a seized BTC sell-off that began in June. The USMC reported that 11 registered bidders placed 27 bids for the bitcoin, down from 45 bidders in June. ... read more ...
 
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Radix Set to Launch .SITE TLD in 2015 – Virtual - Sedo Analysts name .site as a top 10 most valued new gTLD. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 05, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Radix, the UAE based registry operator for a bunch of new TLDs, has won the rights to operate the popular new gTLD .site for an undisclosed amount, and is looking to launch it in early 2015. This was a big win for Radix as it went up against industry heavyweights including Donuts, Minds+ Machines and Interlink Co. .site is a short, generic, and easily understood nTLD by ... read more ...
 
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Mauritian Government Not Paying The Bills on Gov.mu and domain is going to be auctioned off - In what looks to be a really odd situation, the website islandcrisis.net is reporting that the government of Mauritius did not pay their bill for the domain name gov.mu. So now it is going to be auctioned off. The domain supposedly gets 500,000 to 1,100,000 queries a day. The government moved on to govmu.org. Read the full story here The Internet Direct Limited (IDL), the company that is behind the deactivation of gov.mu, stated that the Mauritian government did not pay its bills, and as a consequence, ... read more ...
 
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QNB.com domain name sells for $1 million - Bank sells domain name to another bank for $1 million. Qatar National Bank has paid $1 million to acquire the three letter domain name QNB.com. The deal was disclosed in an SEC filing made by the seller, another bank called QNB Bank. The seller changed its web presence to QNBBank.com. Changing a bank’s domain name is a big deal, and I’m not surprised at the price tag on this deal given the circumstances. Qatar National Bank uses the country code domain name QNB.com.qa ... read more ...
 
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Porn site user sues cybersquatters - Company goes after alleged cybersquatters of its adult site brands. The company behind PornHub.com, RedTube.com and YouPorn.com has filed multiple lawsuits in U.S. District court against the owners of at least ten domain names it alleges are cybersquatting on its brands. The lawsuit was filed by Licensing IP International S.à.r.l., which is commonly known as MindGeek. Targeted in the suits are typos, country codes and other domains that contain its brands: PoernHub.com, ... read more ...
 
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2 weeks of lapsed domain name sales - This article covers a 2-week period on either side of Thanksgiving: 19 November – 2 December. For that reason, you’ll see the sales list crammed full to bursting like a ClownCar.com ($662). I was going to jettison everything below $300 to save space, but I figure readers can quite easily scroll past extra information. GoDaddy’s top expired auction last week comes as a bit of a surprise. Whatever its accrued merits for SEO, the 4-word, 23-letter BarnDoorSlidingHardware.com ... read more ...
Thu 4th December 2014
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Shopzilla Acquires Become.com Which Was Sold 10 Years By BuyDomains For $20K - Connexity, the online price comparison and shopping company formerly known as Shopzilla, has agreed to acquire e-commerce aggregator Become.com. TechCrunch reported the deal Thursday Financial terms of the acquisition of Sunnyvale-based Become-com were not disclosed. Become.com, founded by Michael Yang in 2004, had raised $37.2 million in funding from investors who include SV Angel, TPG and the European Founders Fund. Its CEO is Alex Terry and Yang is on the board. Shopzilla, before it became Connexity, ... read more ...
 
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Domaining 2015 In Valencia Spain: 1st 10 Readers That Signup Get 50% Off - The 7th Domain Conference will be hold again in Valencia, Spain from the 23rd to the 25th of April 2015. The first 10 readers of thedomains.com will get a 50% off the price using this code VIPTheDomains Some of the discussions that will be covered include: Geo Tld’s How to avoid your Domain being stolen How is .com doing News on the newGTLD scene Startups and Domains Domain Tools and APPS Domains and SEO The new WHOIS and how it will affect the Registrant News on the Development side for Domains The ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Ltd Welcomes New Board Members - TLD Registry Ltd, the world's leading Internationalized Domain Name "New gTLD" registry, today announced three newest members of the board: Chairwoman of the board Kirsi Eräkangas (伊可思), Vice Chairman Harri Koponen (柯皓锐), and board member Jari Tuovinen (陶杰瑞). Eräkangas is a 20-year veteran as a business angel investor, advisor, and board member for several different computer-based companies in Finland. She is also the co-founder of Basware, a Finnish e-commerce company ... read more ...
 
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Seven Key Takeaways from ICANN 51 in Los Angeles - The 51st international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally concluded on Thursday, October 16, 2014, in Los Angeles. As always, the ICANN community discussed several high-profile topics during the meeting, all of which are relevant to registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike, including: two-character names and geographic names; string confusion objection review, indirect contention, and auctions; ... read more ...
 
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Fake Bitcoin Foundation sites scamming cryptocurrency users - We read about phishing emails targeted at domain name owners all the time, things from verification scams to update your payment details and so on. The world of crypto currency is seeing the same thing, with the latest scam detailed on Monday by Liam Tung on ZDnet. It seems people are getting duped into believing they are receiving emails from the Bitcoin Foundation when these are spoofed versions of the foundation website. From the article: The latest ruse to scam Bitcoin owners out of their holdings ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings Joins The ICA As A Silver Member - Domain Holdings, has become the latest member of The Internet Commerce Association (the ICA) which is a trade group that represents and protect  domain name holders and those with interests in the domain business. Domainholdings.com has entered the ICA as a silver member which requires a annual contribution of $5,000-$9,999 I reached out to Alan Dunn of DomainHoldings to ask him why the company thought it was important to become  a member of the ICA. Here is their statement: “”Joining the ICA ... read more ...